I have consistently posted Kos diaries about the ever increasing threat of war with Iran. Many readers have dismissed my attempts to impassion preemptive protest against an increasingly imminent strike. Now we will do the Phoney War dance. Don’t know what the Phoney War is, here is a link to familiarize yourself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
I place the focus of this discussion squarely on the Project for the New American Century whose elitist members have the ears and string necessary to bring this war agenda to fruition.
REBUILDING AMERICA’S DEFENSE
Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century
Over the long term, Iran may well prove as large a threat to U.S. interests in the Gulf as Iraq has. And even should U.S.-Iranian relations improve, retaining forward-based forces in the region would still be an essential element in U.S. security strategy given the long standing American interests in the region. (p.17)
Perhaps more interesting is the prophetic reference to the 9/11 horror.
CREATING TOMORROW’S DOMINANT FORCE
Any serious effort at transformation must occur within the larger framework of U.S. national security strategy, military missions and defense budgets. The United States cannot simply declare a "strategic pause" while experimenting with new technologies and operational concepts. Nor can it choose to pursue a transformation strategy that would decouple American and allied interests. A transformation strategy that solely pursued capabilities for projecting force from the United States, for example, and sacrificed forward basing and presence, would be at odds with larger American Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century 51 policy goals and would trouble American allies. Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor. Domestic politics and industrial policy will shape the pace and content of transformation as much as the requirements of current missions. (p.51)
This suggests many things and is open for interpretation. However, it is clear that these two references to end-game and catalyst, respectively, are stark.
Fast forward to current events. We are meeting with the Iranians and as far as I can tell nothing is off the table for discussion. We have captured Iraq, assembled Persian Gulf Allies with gifts of weapons and future defense, placed the seeds of fracture and isolation on Palestine and Syria and begun the Lebanese proxy war via Israel, Hezbollah, Christian Orthodox/Maronite and Lebanese Muslims both Shia/Sunni. We have imposed a civil war upon Iraq by suggesting and encouraging a democracy can be built on sectarian lines. We have sewn the seeds of chaos and now we go to the dance to see how much the Iranians will give up.
Hence, the Phoney War that begins now until the bombs begin flying, falling and killing. To make it nice and legit. Bush and Cheney will say through their Tony Snow mouth piece
"We tried to talk with them, placed sanctions on them, gave them every opportunity. Now they must die and their sovereign scientific discoveries, though we gave them to their neighbors, must be dismantled with Shock and Awe. We must kill all Iranians for our blessed American interests." (Previous is fictional; I am quoting my imagination, Nostradamus style)
And so it begins. The coming days will reveal that troop redeployment will become more about how to transition Iraqi and Afghani troops into a two border offense into the Iranian War Zone. You see we have Iran on two borders and we can also shove our massive Persian Gulf Armada up from the South to support it all. Maintaining Iraq as a forward operating base, where incidentally civilian casualties are of no consequence because they are not American.
Dark days are upon the U.S. if we allow the war hawks to dig their talons in. We need impeachment or some sort of global diversion until Bush gets out of office, he and his handlers are keen on making this happen...after all they owe it to Saudi Arabia and Israel for all they have done for the Bush Mafia.
Your thoughts, advice, disgust?
http://www.newamericancentury.org/...